House of Inconvenience

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

Yeah, he seems to simply assume that trans people always do things like crossdressing and play with "gender-atypical" toys even when this would cause their parents and peers to punish them and they know it.

It just doesn't occur to him that some trans people just don't have an interest in that kind of thing and you couldn't readily identify them based on whether they prefer to play with trucks or barbies?

Speaking for myself I didn't even go out of my way to conform to my assigned gender or subvert it. If you did not know my actual thoughts I probably would have appeared perfectly cis to Zucker. I never saw the appeal of Barbies or skirts or anything, and even now I don't wear those.

He also seems to think that even in trans people who do have those preferences the need to satisfy them is so intense and irresistible that we can always expect people to try to do it regardless of the predictable consequences from their parents or peers.

Sometimes children do try this and then they get beaten, sent to conversion camps, bullied by their peers, kicked out of the house, etc.

But some other times they can tell right away from observation and/or other experiences that society punishes even minor forms of gender nonconformity and know it's risky to do anything like that while in their relatively powerless position.

I was never a repressor or anything myself, but I still hid my wishes and intentions from my parents because I knew my father in particular might have legitimately killed me over it. I had to patiently plan my way into a safer country and leave my family before I started HRT.

Wakes up from hypnosis where he was about to marry a woman he’s never seen before with his mystery girl’s voice, the instant he wakes up then the cute girl he’s actually fallen in love with now has that voice. Then she drops to the floor and has a fish tail, and then the first girl is suddenly cackling “too late!” and bursting out of her skin. So it turns out she’s actually an octopus woman who drags herself over to the real mystery girl - who’s a mermaid?! They’re real?! - and taking her back into the ocean. And Eric has no idea what’s going on here but okay, one of these women is clearly evil and he needs to go after his mystery girl.

And all of this happens/he realizes what he has to do within like, a single minute.

Prior to this he was just living out a sweet romance after having a Meet Cute with a shipwrecked girl, but okay, guess he’s involved in whatever the fuck this is. Acting first, questioning later.

It's this moment. This one right here is how you know they love each other. See, Chidi teaches Elanor in every timeline... But here we see Elanor reaching out. She doesn't have a lot to offer Chidi, but she's TRYING. She's TRYING to teach him something that he doesn't know, and SHE IS IMITATING HIM not because it's a joke, but because she's using him as a model for love. This kind of imitation is a CLASSIC way for someone like Elanor to dip a toe into the pool of emotional vulnerability, into reciprocating effort and feelings.

When a typeface you've banned for use on middle school science projects follows you lightyears away to an alien planet 🤦🏼‍♂️